"Sunlight shines on my face; this is my grace, to be restored, born again, in flame!" The legend of the Phoenix inspires this stunning work for divisi mixed voices with piano and optional string quartet. Your...view details

A musical soundscape on a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, this picturesque setting includes wind-blowing sounds for the sopranos and tenors while the rest of the choir sings, "I watch the wind bow down the...view details

This profound work is set to a stunning 16th century love poem, which translates "You are the Love of my Soul." A deeply emotive composition, the work contains a rich harmonic language and lucid vocal...view details

The powerful fusion of Octavio Paz's words and Eric Whitacre's musical imagery has made this work a favorite with more accomplished high school and college choirs. It continues to be a conductors' choice for...view details

Walt Whitman's Song of the Open Road is the basis for this expansive and melodic original composition that is perfectly suited to the young mixed chorus. Limited range melodies and chordal harmonies...view details

Rich chords and interesting vocal lines fill this lush setting of Edgar Allan Poe's A Dream Within a Dream. The composer has captured the mystery and wonder of the poem through his harmonic and textural...

Written by Hila Plitmann and inspired by a trip to Switzerland, each song in this suite is a poetic postcard that captures every lush, romantic moment in full. An expressive and idiomatic collection for mixed...view details

These exquisite settings of poems by Garcilaso de la Vega are an important contribution to the literature for today's choirs. Included are: En tanto que de rosa y azucena (While colors of the rose and...view details

The first work in the set, "Perspectives" by Dwight Bigler, featuring poetry by Langston Hughes. A light and bouncy melody with the piano as an equal and important voice. The composition Fulfillment...

Translated as "Beautiful nymphs who are in the river," this accompanied setting of a sonnet by Garcilaso de la Vega captures all the magical feeling of the poet's image of lovely nymphs playing among the...view details

Sara Teasdale's immortal poem is treated lovingly in this gorgeous choral setting. Stroope has a rare sensitivity to poetic texts and an equally rare gift for bringing the words to life in his music. This is...view details

"Oh, plunge me deep in love, put out my senses, leave me deaf and blind, swept by the tempest of your love, a taper in a rushing wind..." The depth of passion in Sara Teasdale's famous poem is embodied in...view details

Wonderfully expressive and deeply moving, this musical setting really does justice to the sensitivity and intimate mood of e.e. cummings' poem. David Dickau is at his compositional best in this exquisite love...view details

Sprightly and engaging, this setting of a well-known early nineteenth-century lyric by James Leigh Hunt (a contemporary of Shelley and Keats) offers competent high school choirs a chance to explore rhythmic...view details

This is the third setting of words by Octavio Paz, "Water Night" and "Cloudburst" from this successful young California composer. Little Birds pays homage to Gabriel Faur with its running piano part and...view details

The poetry of Eugene Field is captured beautifully in this original work. The words of the lullaby speak both to a child falling asleep and to a child who "does not hear his mother's song." The lilting...

"Eternal light, luminescence, time forgotten, time shifting, sifting through silence..." An impressionistic text lends itself beautifully to a cappella singing in this evocative work which is, to quote the...view details

"When stars pursue their solemn flight, oft in the middle of the night, a strain of music visits me, hushed in a moment silverly..." A poem by Harriet Prescott Spofford is the inspiration for this passionate,...view details